March 24th 2020: Coronavirus Day 10

Last night the UK went into 'lockdown'.  We can only leave the house to buy essential food and medicines, or to attend to a vulnerable person or to exercise once a day but only with someone from your household and 2m away from anyone else.  The police will be fining those that don't comply.  We've been doing this anyway so there's no change as far as we are concerned.   What we need to check is that we can go by car to a place to walk outside Norwich.  

Confirmed UK cases: 6,650   New cases: 0067 UK deaths 335

Peter spent most of the morning on a conference call while I spent over an hour talking to Miriam on Skype, did some washing and got it dry on the line and ironed it all .  I did a few laps of the garden, but that didn't generate many steps.  I stood under the pergola in the corner of the garden where I thought the neighbours couldn't see me and did some exercises.  The rest of the morning was spent footling around on line and after lunch we went for a walk in the Plantation Garden.  Just one circuit to give us some exercise but with the ulterior motive of seeing if people were keeping their distance from each other.  If they don't, we may have to close the garden.  This would be very hard as it's a wonderful space for some air and tranquility.  When we got back we had tea and cake on the bench in the front garden in the warm sun and then we returned to our laptops.  A flurry of emails went round the cinema club group and we have decided to set up a zoom virtual cinema night - all watching the same film and then discussing it online.  

I set up a subscription to the British Film Institute and we may watch a film tonight.   PS  We started watching 'Sorry We Missed You' by Ken Loach about the gig economy and zero hours working and, in the current circumstances with so many unable to work, it was too depressing and we switched it off.  I think we need some comedy!